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Flooding and Rip Current Concerns from Chantal; Lingering Flood Watches in Central Texas

Chantal is now a Tropical Depression. Flash flood concerns continue across portions of central North Carolina into Monday. Life-threatening surf and rip currents conditions are expected to continue at beaches along the U.S. East Coast from northeastern Florida to the Mid-Atlantic states during the next day or so. Flood Watches and recovery continue across central Texas. Read More >

Overview

A low pressure system entered the central Plains on Friday (12/10), quickly strengthened, then turned northeast into the Great Lakes Friday night. An initial band of snow moved into northeast Wisconsin Friday afternoon, however the main band of precipitation impacted the region Friday night into Saturday morning (12/11).

Gulf moisture was in place (250 percent of normal) before the storm arrived. Strong forcing, coupled with strong mid-level frontogenetical forcing, steep mid-level lapse rates and a coupled jet structure led to snow accumulations that ranged from 8 to 13 inches over northern WI to under an inch over Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. East-central WI saw a wintry mix Friday evening turn to rain Friday night before changing to snow Saturday morning.

Hazardous road conditions were reported across the area, along with some power outages, especially across northern and northeast Wisconsin.

 

Please see tabs below for more information.

Snowfall map
Preliminary Storm Total Snowfall
(Please note: Snowfall estimated in spots & some additional snow fell across eastern WI after some observations were taken.)

To view the latest report totals, please click HERE 

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